You Never Said Goodbye
An electrifying, edge of your seat thriller
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
The day she left was only the beginning . . .
Sam was eleven when his mother went out and never came back. He waited for her and then he grieved for her, as his family fell apart around him.
Sam tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. But it's only as his father lies dying that Sam begins to realise the cracks and inconsistencies in their family history.
Who was his mother and why did she need to disappear? Why cover it up? As Sam searches for answers, and the trial leads him from the UK to the US, danger builds around him . . .
Taut, thrilling and full of tension, YOU NEVER SAID GOODBYE is about a man who discovers his entire life is built on lies. But what price is the truth?
Praise for Luca Veste:
'Fantastic' MARK BILLINGHAM
'High-concept serial killer thriller with twists and heart. Stunning' STEVE CAVANAGH
'Properly Stephen King-style creepy' IAN RANKIN
'Perfectly terrifying' AMANDA JENNINGS
'Seriously creepy with a killer twist - Luca Veste goes from strength to strength' MARK EDWARDS
'Creepy and compelling. The serial killer thriller of the year' MASON CROSS
'Urban legend meets serial killer thriller - terrifying' STUART NEVILLE
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sam Cooper, the 34-year-old narrator of this energetic if lightweight thriller from Veste (The Bone Keeper), believes his mother, Laurie, was killed in a car wreck before he moved as a boy from the U.S. to England with his emotionally traumatized father, David. But when Sam visits his savagely beaten father on his father's deathbed, David murmurs that Laurie is alive. Sam is soon off in search of a ghost, closely trailed by Carson and Hunter, two casually vicious American thugs in the pay of Laurie's current husband, a possessive sadist—and by the enigmatic Jackson, who has a separate, unknown employer. When the quest takes Sam to America, he discovers new allies (perhaps) and more misdirection as he grapples with the question of why, if she didn't die, his mother has hidden from him for 25 years. The action that follows is frantic and inventive, as bit players are finished with one shot while the principal characters survive remarkable quantities of bullets and beatings. This isn't for those seeking nuanced characterizations.
